Intensive care medicine · 1996
The outcome of children admitted to intensive care with meningococcal septicaemia.
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Mok Q, Butt W
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OBJECTIVE: To review our experience of children with meningococcal septicaemia, and to validate, in our group, severity scores used in different populations to predict outcome.
DESIGN: Retrospective review of case notes and charts.
PATIENTS: A total of 35 children were admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) in the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in the 8 years between January 1985 and December 1992 with proven meningococcal septicaemia.
RESULTS: Ages ranged from 4 months to 16 years, with a median age of 20 months. The median meningococcal score was 4 and the median PRISM score was 20, with scores above these being significantly associated with death (P < 0.0001). Thirty-two children (91%) received infusions of colloid for hypovolaemia and twenty-nine (83%) received one or more inotropic drugs. Twenty-one children (60%) required mechanical ventilation for a median of 16.5 h (range 7-574). Seven children (20%) underwent plasmapheresis. Six children (17%) underwent haemofiltration and two (6%), peritoneal dialysis. One patient received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) because of circulatory failure. Twenty-one children (60%) developed disseminated intravascular coagulation, renal failure and/or skin or limb necrosis. The overall survival was 66%, and all survivors are functionally normal.
CONCLUSION: The mortality from the disease remains at 34% despite the technological advances in intensive care. The PRISM and meningococcal scores are useful in predicting outcome. Novel methods of treatment (e.g., plasmapheresis or ECMO) may be valuable.
DESIGN: Retrospective review of case notes and charts.
PATIENTS: A total of 35 children were admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) in the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in the 8 years between January 1985 and December 1992 with proven meningococcal septicaemia.
RESULTS: Ages ranged from 4 months to 16 years, with a median age of 20 months. The median meningococcal score was 4 and the median PRISM score was 20, with scores above these being significantly associated with death (P < 0.0001). Thirty-two children (91%) received infusions of colloid for hypovolaemia and twenty-nine (83%) received one or more inotropic drugs. Twenty-one children (60%) required mechanical ventilation for a median of 16.5 h (range 7-574). Seven children (20%) underwent plasmapheresis. Six children (17%) underwent haemofiltration and two (6%), peritoneal dialysis. One patient received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) because of circulatory failure. Twenty-one children (60%) developed disseminated intravascular coagulation, renal failure and/or skin or limb necrosis. The overall survival was 66%, and all survivors are functionally normal.
CONCLUSION: The mortality from the disease remains at 34% despite the technological advances in intensive care. The PRISM and meningococcal scores are useful in predicting outcome. Novel methods of treatment (e.g., plasmapheresis or ECMO) may be valuable.